do-all

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English

Noun

do-all (plural do-alls)

  1. A general manager or factotum.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, , new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for Thomas Tegg and Son, , published 1837, →OCLC:
      Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things.
      The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “do-all”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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